.com
Industry: | TLD |
Founded: | 1985 |
Headquarters: | 21355 Ridgetop Circle Dulles, VA 20166 |
Country: | USA |
Website: | www.verisigninc.com |
Key People | |
Mark McLaughlin, President & CEO |
.com is one of the first generic top level domain name (gTLD) of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). It stands for commercial under the RFC 920 prepared by the working group led by by Jon Postel in 1985, when the DNS was implemented.[1] Verisign manages the registry of the .com gTLD.